Ron, thanks for the link.
This is fantastic stuff and potentially the biggest thing since Star Trek this year! Some of the specs are amazing ...
focussing beams of 500 trillion watts (more than the total generating power of the whole USA) ... creating temperatures of 100 million degrees and pressures of a billion Earth atmospheres.
NIF aims to produce small scale versions of stars (nuclear fusion) and supernova explosions here on Earth.
Can't wait to see what they come up with!
Regards, Rob.